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How Visa, FIS, TCH, SWIFT, Nacha and Circle See The Future of Faster, Real Time Payments Rails

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Moving Beyond ACH . ACH might be among the most readily visible paper check killers — and as Nacha’s Larimer noted, “we need more than just ACH to make huge inroads [against checks]. Real time and the ACH network can actually work together to displace paper checks.” So that is certainly an aspiration.

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The Clearing House On The Race for Real-Time Payments In The US

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Learning from past mistakes will be important, he said, considering that there were roughly 120 million ACH, 36 million checks and about 4 million debit cards issued in the first funding round. Expanding The Use Cases. What’s going to change that are some new use cases,” Waterhouse predicted.

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New Year’s Resolution: The Clearing House Urges Banks To Become 24/7 Operations

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“A lot of what the pandemic did was force our industry to truly be digital, to facilitate frictionless transactions,” TCH Senior Vice President Elena Whisler said in a recent conversation with PYMNTS. “It To facilitate this transition in handling 24/7 cash flow, Whisler said TCH offers services such as intraday reconciliation.

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Why FedNow Will Slow Real-Time Payments

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That’s the talk track now from the Fed , which a week ago today announced its plans to build and operate a new set of real-time rails, using accelerated access to employer paychecks as its launch use case. Ironically, perhaps, the ACH network’s first direct deposit use case was the U.S.

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TCH’s Waterhouse: Real-Time Payments’ 2021 Focus Is On Smarter, Safer

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According to Russ Waterhouse , executive vice president of Product Development and Strategy at The Clearing House (TCH), the surge in digitization brought on by the COVID-19 crisis has accelerated the evolution of a range of RTP (Real-Time Payments) network advancements, including instant payroll, merchant settlements and tokenization.

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Faster Payments: Does The Fed Have A Hidden Agenda?

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First, there was the Fed’s decision to slow faster payments progress via Same Day ACH because it wasn’t ready to approve another processing window during the day. Last week, NACHA issued an ACH operations bulletin announcing the delay of the rollout of a third Same Day ACH (SDA) processing window by six months, to March 19, 2021.

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The Clearing House’s Strategies To Drive RTP Uptake

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Banking association and payments company The Clearing House (TCH) has been confronting such concerns as it advances its real-time payment ( RTP ) offering in the U.S., according to Steve Ledford, TCH’s senior vice president of Product Strategy and Development. That [arrangement] was never going to fly in the U.S.”.

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